Hey, ok, I will post, Lexi.  Thanks for the kick in the butt.  I know, the Stinchfield's have been lacking at the blogging thing.  Between Facebook, Instagram and our proximity to each other, I guess we just thought we'd be coughing up the same old stuff over and over.  We'll try to do better!

The title of the post is due to some nasty wisdom teeth I just spent a couple hours saying hello to.  Enough said.

The 38th Ct. Washougal Stinchfield's are doing just fantastic.  Between all of our activities, I don't know how we have time to sleep.

Adina is on a relief status at the hospital and is able to share her talents there.  I think it is a nice break from the home stuff too.  Many days now, during the day, she is home alone, so I can see how that might get boring.  Although on her days off, I get to have lunch with her!  That's why I like it when she doesn't work.  Besides the hospital, she spend an inordinate amount of time doing the marketing for our practice.  Like she keeps saying, "It is a full time job".  A lot to do, but the fruits of her labors are starting to show.  We are steadily growing the practice and Tom and I are both staying quite busy.

Adina got me a journal for Christmas.  Not any old journal.  It was a "One-Sentence" journal.  I am horrible at recording my day to day history...even my year to year history.  This journal 'allows' you to just write one or two sentences each day about your life.  I have been able to write in it every day since January 1st.  That is a first ever, so I hope it continues...

Isaac is getting ready for his graduation, Eagle completion and mission in August.  Crazy busy year for him.  I think his head is spinning.  Our heads are spinning too.  We love him despite his 17-isms.

Taylor is an entrepreneur.  I'll just leave it at that for now and explain later.

Parker is thinking about going into student government.  Maybe that is his niche??

Morgan is turning into quite the runner.  She just turned 11 years old and can run 3 miles and keep up with her mom (which is tough, trust me).  She trains with the high school cross country distance coach 2-3 times a week with speed training etc..  It'll be fun to see that develop.  Great thing is she loves it.

Anyway, more later....dave

Thank you, Anne! We have all gotten out of the habit of posting because we see eachother so often. However, day to day goings on do not always get communicated. As often as I talk to you, some of the news is new news to me even. Dad and I are getting along well. January is a quiet month for us. Today, we went down this morning to get Marnie's wedding dress. It still may need some altering but looks beautiful on her...no pictures because Eric might see it!!! Tonight we are going down to Voicebox, a karaoke place that has private rooms (the only way) with D & A, T & T, M &B and M&E, and then out to dessert at Papa Haydn's. Tomorrow night we are all getting together for Parker(13), Brie (1), Beck (5) and Ellyn (9)'s birthdays. Wednesday, we are leaving for our Cowboy Poetry Weekend...so excited especially to see Martha and Dick...and Lexi and Dennis and a lot of their clan. Very much looking forward to the "65" Cruise. It is coming up quick! Kenn and I have been diligently trying to lose weight we have each lost about 25-30 lbs and are feeling great. We hope that this next weekend will not totally blow it...don't think so. My running pace is really improving with the loss of weight. The other day I finally broke 11 min per mile for a 4 mile stretch. I just signed up for the Foot Traffic Flat half marathon so I'll start training in earnest for it after the cruise. Up to now, that was my fastest Half so I'm hoping to make a PR this year. Kenn has been very busy with his work and church. He is the ward clerk now and is enjoying working in the bishopric. I was released as RS Pres in November and I am really enjoying a more low key involvement. I am now one of three teachers for the Gospel Doctrine class so I only have to teach every three or so weeks. It is scheduled around our travel so it is perfect!! However, tomorrow they also asked me to speak so everyone will get very tired of hearing my voice. Hopefully, I'll have a lot of participation in Sunday School. So excited to see that Sean and Bridget's new little daughter, Winne, was born on Jan 22. It is fun to see the family still growing. I still consider one of my greatest blessings at this point having our family close enough so that we can get together frequently!!! Amazing to think that Isaac will be going on his mission this next summer...Wow!!! Love, Mom

Quick updates on everyone:

Peter
- Just won a project at Lane Community College (biggie!)
- Also will be working with Gates City council to design parts of their water system
- Has an interview tomorrow with City of Willamena for the possible job as the City Engineer of Record
- is now the Cubmaster for our ward
- Working hard to get ready for the Hill Billy Half and other races we will be doing in the next 6 months
- enjoying his fusion pass and skiing as often as possible

Anne
- is now the YW secretary and Personal Progress adviser which will make for a bit less stressful job when volleyball starts up again
- Has decided to run another marathon - Foot Traffic Flat on July 4th
- Getting ready for the cruise
- Doing a crossfit challenge online with Chelsea Northam
- just got back from a recent trip to SD to attend a wedding for her best friend from high school, Laura

Andrew
- Is reading chapter books very well now
- enjoying playing his new Nintendo DS from Santa
- playing basketball on his team - the Hoyas. Still learning the game and really understanding what to do during offense and defense. Stole the ball in his game on Saturday and ran down and almost shot it in for a point. He was so proud of himself.
- getting ready to sign up for t-ball

Beck
- learning to sound out words and trying to learn to read
- also getting ready to sign up for t-ball
- loves making up songs and doing his own version of whistling
- helping out as the big kid in the house while Andrew is gone during the day
- on break from preschool until March
- Celebrates his 5th birthday next week and is so excited to finally be 5. Kindergarten next year - so crazy to think about having 2 kids in school.

Camie
- loving her princess castle and talking about each princess
- loves to change her clothes 10 times a day
- helps out with Derek and is loving being a big sister
- talking up a storm - so much so that we have to tell her to be quiet
- climbs on the counters to get a drink or find secret candy in the cabinets - so independent
- no more diapers at night! We are going on 5 days with no accident at night - or during the day for that matter.

Derek
- will be 7 months next week
- moving around everywhere - army crawling and rolling
- up on hands and knees and rocking, trying to figure out the whole crawling thing
- weighs 17.9 pounds (50%) and is 28 inches long (85%). He is our biggest child by far and weighs more than Camie did at 12 months
- eating like a champ and is such a mooch - he wants our food so badly
- such a happy low key baby, We are so lucky to have him. We still don't know how we got 4 such great cute kids.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder?

I think most of you have seen these on Facebook but I thought I'd post here for those of you who avoid that medium. :) These are the engagement photos that Eric & I had taken in early October by a friend of Kimberly's. They were taken at the International Rose Garden in Washington Park in Portland and at Cathedral Park under the St. John's bridge in Portland. Beautiful day!

Here is the update from us!

Melia- She is absolutely LOVING school! I didn't think I would cry on the first day of school, but of course, I did on the walk there. We walk every day and now it has turned into her running all the way there with McKenzie. She goes from 8:20- 2:50 every day and has already made some great friends in her class. She has already had one incident of a 1st grader girl kind of making fun of her and she did not understand why they were being mean to her. It already has begun... But we talked to her and she now says it doesn't matter and that they can't hurt her. Melia is now into making videos where she sings songs and acts them out... making it up as she goes. I will have to post her "Bunny Tale" video soon.

McKenzie- She has had quite an adjustment with having Melia gone, but is also enjoying being pretty much the only one and the big helper at home. She is enjoying preschool and LOVES her new friends there. She is going to be playing soccer in the Winter with her friend Jovie and Amy (who is my co teacher at the preschool) is going to be the coach. She says she is going to be great since she runs so fast. A couple of weeks ago, McKenzie had her 4 year old check up. She was 3 foot 7 inches tall and 42 lbs. She got all her kindergarten shots (definitely did not like that part!) and now she is ready for next year!
Brie- She is 8 months old already and is crawling around and pulling up on things. She loves to walk along the couch and she REALLY likes the X-box which Treven is not happy about. We had our first ER trip for any of our kids with her a couple of weeks ago when she busted her eyelid open on the entertainment center. She ended up not needing any stitches because the cut was in the crease of her eyelid and by the time the doctor saw us, it had stopped bleeding. The doctor didn't want to cause any more pain so he said that it should close up on it's own. It did, very well too! She has been teething a lot, but no teeth have popped through yet. It is killer! She is now eating soft table food. We found that whenever she ate the baby food from the jars, she spits up... so we are cutting that out and going for all soft table food.
Treven- He is working really hard at work. He is going to the manager assessments at the beginning of October and hopefully that will cause something to happen with management. The District Manager told him 3 weeks ago that she is watching him for the next 6 weeks to see how he performs and that will determine the route she will take with his promotion. Pray for him, please! :)
As far as school goes,  he has been looking at BYU- Idaho's online programs. They now offer online degrees and he is thinking of switching to Health Administration as his Bachelor's. He really did not enjoy WSU Vancouver and needs to be able to love school and have the time to work a full time job as well which WSU Vancouver was not providing for him.

Kim- Preschool is doing great! I am still at Tiny Peas Preschool. I flirted with the idea of opening my own preschool out of our home, but I prayed about it and had a firm confirmation to speak with Amy before breaking away. I did, and she was feeling exactly the same way I was and we changed our curriculum and the way that we do things at the preschool. It has been amazing. Our preschool is full and our new kids mesh so well with the kids that have been with us for a while. I am looking for work on MWF to be able to bring in some extra money for our family. I will see if I got the job I interviewed for at Willamette Dental some time today or tomorrow. I started Weight Watchers with Mom about 4 weeks ago and I have lost a total of 9.8 lbs! I am loving it and really am feeling great. This week I am going to start back up on running. I wanted to lose 10 lbs before I did. 10 lbs is a lot and having that gone will definitely help! My goal is to lose 40 more lbs. We will see :) The cruise and Marnie's wedding are great motivators.


We are so thankful for everything that we have in our lives: family so close, a great home, great school nearby for the kids, our ward, and A LOT more. Thank you for all your support and love, it always means more than you know.

Ok, ok - I guess we'll jump on the bandwagon too with Adina's prompt. We do definitely need to be better about blogging but it's so hard when we are all so close and see each other so frequently!